The Hyannis Fire District building committee will be meeting in a larger space July 29, and possibly making some decisions about a smaller new station.

Fire Commissioner Richard Gallagher, who chairs the building committee, said cost analyses won’t be completed in time for proposed changes to be discussed at Monday’s meeting, which will be held in the Hyannis Youth and Community Center’s Shepley Room at 5 p.m.

There has, however, been significant activity over the weeks since the last public meeting on the proposed new station, which originally met the public eye with a $25.5 million price tag.

“As chairman, I knew immediately that was unacceptable, as did the committee, as did the chief,” Gallagher said in an interview this week, “so we instructed the architect and the engineers to go back to work and make any modifications they could.”

The goal, he said, was “to get to what the committee would feel comfortable with going to the voters to ask for funding. That number is still being worked on by the committee.”

When initial efforts got the cost down to around $20 million, Gallagher said, “the architects were asked to keep on working without changing or modifying the room space we need for future use.”

That point is important to Gallagher and Chief Harold Brunelle. Gallagher said they don’t want to ask for funds for a building that will be inadequate in five years and require further requests to district voters.

On Monday, according to Gallagher, the architects will go over changes they’ve been working on the last month in collaboration with the department’s chiefs, himself, and vice chairman Gary Brown.

“What we’re trying to do,” Gallagher said, “is make the station adequate for the future but keep the costs down. It’s a really difficult balancing act.”

Those who attend next week’s meeting will hear of plans to detach the planned mechanic’s bays from the main building and put them in a separate steel structure. “The architects came up with a very significant cost savings,” Gallagher said.

The committee “needs to start making decisions as soon as Monday night,” according to Gallagher, on what exterior material will be used for the new station.

The Greater Hyannis Civic Association has been studying a set of plans given to the board by the committee and has come up with some ideas that will be presented July 29.

“We welcome the community to be a part of this,” Gallagher said. “It’s their station, their tax dollars. We will have a lot more of these meetings before we even think of going to the voters for final approval.”